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Quotes About Sheep

The phenomenon we have witnessed in Germany was nothing less than [an] outbreak of epidemic insanity. . . No one knew what was happening to him, least of all of the Germans, who allowed themselves to be driven to the slaughterhouse by their leading psychopaths like hypnotized sheep.
~ Carl Jung
The sheep has caused more extensive environmental damage in this country than all the building that has ever taken place here.
~ George Monbiot
It were the black one," the man said, in a Ghiscari growl, "the winged shadow. He come down from the sky and … and …" No. Dany shivered. No, no, oh no…. …"Those are no sheep bones.
~ George R.R. Martin
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
~ George Washington
In a few days small white clouds started their winter parade, trooping across the sky, soft and chubby, long, languorous, and unkempt, or small and crisp as feathers, and driving them before it, like an ill-assorted flock of sheep, would come the wind. This was warm at first, and came in gentle gusts, rubbing through the olive groves so that the leaves trembled and turned silver with excitement, rocking the cypresses so that they undulated gently, and stirring the dead
~ Gerald Durrell
A leap year Is never a good sheep year.
~ Old English Saying
Why do sheep need a station? Are they catching trains? Where are they going? Why do they have to go there?
~ J.D. Robb
How do you suppose they know the sheep are virgins?
~ J.D. Robb
Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.
~ Piet Hein Wokke, Revolution
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
~ Khalil Gibran
Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
~ Solon
Mr. Arbuthnot certainly was not prepared for her response to his statement that February was a dangerous month. "It is," answered Laura with almost violent agreement. "If you are a were-wolf, and very likely you may be, for lots of people are without knowing, February, of all months, is the month when you are most likely to go out on a dark windy night and worry sheep.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
It is," answered Laura with almost violent agreement. "If you are a were-wolf, and very likely you may be, for lots of people are without knowing, February, of all months, is the month when you are most likely to go out on a dark windy night and worry sheep.
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
The wolf cried when the sheep got drenched in rain.
~ Tamil proverb
He had come to shock the people out of their complacency. This was evident in his every word. There were no sacred sheep in his flock.
~ Taylor Caldwell
To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.
~ Mark Twain
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.
~ Oriana Fallaci
I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.
~ Tommy Emmanuel
I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.
~ Sophie Cookson
I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
~ Nicole Kidman
L'idea delle pecore predatrici che si nascondevano di giorno negli angoli più inaccessibili delle colline per riversarsi di notte come orde assire sulle file di ortaggi degli agricoltori della vallata era piuttosto singolare.
~ Chris Stewart
May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense.
~ Christopher Moore
Oh yes, I kept all of the abominations at bay while Kaliel played with his favorite sheep behind the bushes.
~ Christopher Moore
It's a yeti," said Gaspar from behind me, obviously having been roused from his trance. "An abominable snowman." "This is what happens when you fuck a sheep!?" I exclaimed. "Not an abomination," Josh said, "abominable." The yeti licked him on the cheek.
~ Christopher Moore